If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
QUENTIN CRISPPeople say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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